Slower and slower and slower the author reels you into the story by using his writing to portray suspense. Indeed the author Edgar Allan Poe uses his writing to develop anticipation. In the stories “The cask of amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe uses his writing to produce suspense to the reader by using the characters movements, speech, foreshadowing, and irony. Edgar Allan Poe builds suspense in his stories “The cask of amontillado” and in the story “Tell-Tale Heart” by writing and using literary techniques to build tension.
In the story “Tell-Tale Heart” the author builds suspense by using his writing skills to entice the reader. As a matter of fact, Edgar Allan Poe uses the characters' actions to build up tension in the writing.“I …show more content…
For example, Poe foreshadows many scenes which build suspense. “Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris”(179). In this example, it foreshadows that the place the narrator is describing is going to be used for someone to be locked up like in a catacomb. It builds suspense because it shows how the foreshadowing keeps the reader aware of what might happen next. Also Poe uses irony to develop suspense in his stories. “ ‘It is this,’ I answered producing a trowel from beneath the folds of my roquelaure”(177). Irony builds suspense in this example because it is an irony that he has a trowel because he is going to use the trowel to build a wall to lock up Fortunato. It builds suspense because you already know the narrator is going to use the trowel to build the wall. Also it makes the reader wonder if the narrator will build the wall or repent and not lock up Fortunato. Edgar Allan Poe also uses the characters words to produce tension. For example, in one scene the narrator describes how Fortunato screams which builds suspense. “A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back”(179).The words of this sentence describe how Fortunato screamed which portray suspense because you don’t know what might be happening with
In the story “Tell-Tale Heart” the author builds suspense by using his writing skills to entice the reader. As a matter of fact, Edgar Allan Poe uses the characters' actions to build up tension in the writing.“I …show more content…
For example, Poe foreshadows many scenes which build suspense. “Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris”(179). In this example, it foreshadows that the place the narrator is describing is going to be used for someone to be locked up like in a catacomb. It builds suspense because it shows how the foreshadowing keeps the reader aware of what might happen next. Also Poe uses irony to develop suspense in his stories. “ ‘It is this,’ I answered producing a trowel from beneath the folds of my roquelaure”(177). Irony builds suspense in this example because it is an irony that he has a trowel because he is going to use the trowel to build a wall to lock up Fortunato. It builds suspense because you already know the narrator is going to use the trowel to build the wall. Also it makes the reader wonder if the narrator will build the wall or repent and not lock up Fortunato. Edgar Allan Poe also uses the characters words to produce tension. For example, in one scene the narrator describes how Fortunato screams which builds suspense. “A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back”(179).The words of this sentence describe how Fortunato screamed which portray suspense because you don’t know what might be happening with